World’s sixth largest cruise ship will never sail
A cruise ship designed to hold more than 9,000 passengers - making it one of the largest in the world - will never set sail, instead travelling straight to a scrapyard.
In a shipyard on Germany’s Baltic coast, the Global Dream II was almost complete when MV Werften, the shipbuilder, filed for bankruptcy in January 2022, per The Guardian.
Lacking the funds to complete the vessel themselves, the company sought a buyer for it.
Though the facilities were successfully sold to a German naval unit, the Global Dream II will be scrapped as it isn’t outfitted for military purposes.
Christoph Morgen, the administrator for the bankrupt company, reportedly told a press conference that the Global Dream II would need to be moved out of the shipyard by the end of the year.
German cruise industry magazine An Bord reported that its lower hull would be disposed of for scrap price.
The looming ship, along with its sister ship, Global Dream, would have held the record for largest cruise ships by passenger capacity.
With a combined weight of 208,000 tons, the ships would have also been the sixth largest cruise ships by size, trailing behind the Royal Caribbean’s Oasis-class ships.
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